₦airaland Forum

koife:
I choose to ignore you permanently at this juncture

Okay I'll bite. I read through your original post. In spite of the formatting issues, it is a relatively well articulated and substantive exposition of your own opinion about why Jonathan deserves a second term. However, it is entirely one sided and selective in terms of the actual facts. You have cherry picked what you believe to be the good aspects of Jonathan's stewardship and chosen to ignore the glaring evil aspects of his five year rule.

On one hand you decry the denigration of the office of the president and on the other hand you celebrate the president as a champion of free speech. Free speech is a fundamental human right which entitles every Nigerian to say whatever they please about the people they have as rulers. Worse things have been said by citizens of other countries about their leaders who have performed much better than Jonathan.

Signing the Freedom of Information bill into law was a good move, but like many of the examples you gave it has not produced any tangible results whatsoever. President Jonathan is very adept at taking the window dressing approach to matters of the state. He signs the FOI bill into law but his government frustrates any actual attempt to make government documents available to the public. He sets up committees to look into every random issue, then he buries the committee reports and refuses to act on them. Give us examples of government documents that have been released to the public under the FOI law otherwise signing it was just a smokescreen.

It is true that the aviation sector received a lot of attention under the president. New terminals were built and old ones refurbished. However, for the most part it has been another demonstration of his lack of planning and waste of resources. Having an airport in a particular locality is now seen as a status symbol in Nigeria. Instead of looking at the particulars of actual air travel and costs of maintenance, the government is building airports in places where they are not needed. Nigeria does not need too many airports. A better approach is to upgrade existing ones and develop the road networks linking those airports to the various locations where people are traveling from the most.

The issue of cement is neither here nor there as the improvements in that market have been mostly private sector driven. Moreover it is a relatively minor commodity in the scope of the entire Nigerian market. I'm sure most Nigerians would have appreciated any effort put into promoting the market for cement to be put into promoting the market for garri and rice instead. We should not congratulate Jonathan for the boost in productivity of cement, instead we should be congratulating Dangote.

The corruption issue is the most important one. I have noticed that a lot of GEJ supporters cite the Transparency International corruption index which is pretty much useless as a measure of actual corruption. It only ranks countries based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be by others. In that regard, the fact that Nigeria has improved in ranking over eight countries only means that those eight countries are now perceived to be more corrupt than Nigeria not that Nigeria is any less corrupt. I strongly disagree with Mr. President that the way to tackle corruption is not by prosecution but by prevention. The technological measures being bandied about will only make it more difficult for mid-level officials to steal money. When that money gets into the central accounts in Abuja they will still be having a field day over there helping themselves to our national patrimony.

I know you cannot seriously believe that Jonathan has been tackling corruption. A man that pardoned Dipreye Alamisiegha and Bode George. A man that ignored video evidence of Farouk Lawan collecting bribes. A man that buried Nuhu Ribadu's report on the NNPC oil subsidy scam. A man who refused to take any action against Abba Moro after the atrocious immigration recruitment disaster. A man that we had to beg before he released Stella Oduah from government after she spent N225 million of government funds on two bulletproof cars. A man that transferred a judge just before he was about to dish out a guilty verdict on Erastus Akingbola and brought in another judge who let the man go free. He himself said with his own mouth and I quote; "ordinary stealing is not corruption". That in a nutshell is his personal philosophy about the abuse of government positions for self enrichment.

For these and many other reasons too numerous to list here I believe the time has come for him to bow out of government and leave the stage for someone more capable than he is of addressing the rot in the Nigerian system and polity. The only person currently running for the office of president who has the pedigree and the track record of consistently fighting against corruption and indiscipline is Buhari.

I support Buhari for president because I know what he has done in the war against corruption and indiscipline. In those two areas Jonathan has done nothing of note.

I agree. Only a coward of a president will have his men fighting and dying on the frontline of an insurgency for years and not visit them until it is time for elections. Only God can forgive Jonathan for how he has treated Nigeria's brave armed forces.

Cardinal Okogie has seen the handwriting on the wall. Nigeria cannot survive four more years of GEJ's misrule. Vote Buhari for change.

koife:
I suspect youre not a meticulous person. People like you make white men say if you want to hide information from African man, do that in book pages. I faint!

Reformat your post first then we can have a good discussion.

koife:
I can see you're as lazy as APC....is the formatting the reason you can't read or the plain words. I suspect you can't read just like failbhuari your holy grail....get a life already... pUNK

Guy an online post should not read like a policy report. Nobody has that kind of time online. Just my two cents. Buhari/Osinbajo 2015.

By the way go and learn what a paragraph means and how to use one. It will improve the quality of your future posts.

alabiyemmy:
He can't satisfy you people.

He is a fraud! If not for elections wetin wan push am enter Borno state? If God forbid he should win he will never enter that state again.

koife:
Sir, i said issue based....not some sentiments or better still delete your comment. Name by force to comment?....mtcheeeeew to all this e warriors

Your post is too long and the formatting makes it almost impossible to read which was why I said story story. Maybe if you reformat your post and edit it I may be able to read and make some issue based comments. Meanwhile Buhari/Osinbajo 2015.

Story story. Buhari/Osinbajo 2015 jare.

I love Fashola like my own brother but this was uncalled for. Agbaje is only about six years older than him, they're pretty much age mates.

gen2briz:
Late in what sense?

In the sense of acting like a competent president.

Jonathan has been very generous to Nollywood of which she's a beneficiary, plus he is also her tribesman so why won't she vote for him.

Truckpusher:
You can also agree with me that his accent is just too horrible for a supposedly educated and exposed folk like him.

Quit supporting backwardness my friend ,your savior Buhari is a product of the quota system operated by the Islamic North in the military to ensure that they have an edge over other regions ,now can you conveniently tell me the people that promoted bigotry and nepotism in this country?

Did his accent also play a role in his recent statement about stabilizing global oil price?

Don't ever say that Buhari savior thing again! That is a blasphemous statement and it's on your head only not mine. No Buhari supporter has ever referred to Buhari as a savior only the haters like you. The only savior I know is Jesus Christ. Buhari is just simply a better option for president than the one we have now.
If you don't want to vote for him because you don't like his accent and you prefer the accent of Jonathan then please feel free but don't ever call him savior again.

Vote for Buhari if you ever want to see anything like this happen in Nigeria again within your lifetime.

Truckpusher:
A distinguished international Fellow that can't pronounce words correctly?

Nigeria is simply God's own version of comedy.

Buhari has a Daura accent just like Jonathan has an Otueke accent. If you cannot see beyond that trifling issue in this elections then you must be blinded by bigotry.

I agree with Olukolade on this one. Twitter is not the appropriate place to contact the military on security issues. Oby should have directed her public tweet to her followers and maybe used a DM to discuss with the army spokesman about her security questions.

Matthewbriggs:
I have spoken to a cab drivers from different regions. The west and east mainly, are more open to politically opposing views. The north are harder to convince.

This is not a copy and paste article ... This is 100% original.

I wrote this based on my conviction.

Very true voters safe guard your PVC. A card made possible by a man who wants your vote to count. The PVC makes it more Harder for electoral corruption to take place because its is computerised. This happened under GEJ.

The PVC was Jega's idea and the work of INEC is supposed to be completely independent of the presidency, hence the I in the name. Why should Jonathan get any credit for what INEC is doing? If he can influence INEC in any way then that is corruption as well.

The only reason to vote Jonathan is because you hate Buhari. In other words cutting off your nose to spite your face, but that's the Nigerian way.

It's too late. At this point it looks like a campaign trip not a genuine visit.

Jonathan followers are such silly hypocrites. They abused me in another thread because I said he ought to do this. Now that he has done it they're talking like he's the most fearless leader ever. It won't work. Nigeria deserves a leader with courage at all times not only when votes matter. Sai Buhari!

BlackLeopard:
That's a fucking stupid idea. Him at the war front would immediately paint a target on himself and the troop he's with, he'd be a liability to them they need to take care of, and he'd be a problem, because he's not a combatant that'd take care of himself and by their own employment & honor codes they'd be *obliged* to ensure his security first and foremost, not theirs.

What I suggested he should do is what he just did today. War front doesn't necessarily mean actual theater of fighting.

When I said he ought to do this in another thread his supporters were insulting me. Now that he has done it they're hailing him as fearless. Anyways presido good electioneering move but it's a bit too late now. No be now be morning o.

The more these people are spreading lies to malign GMB the more they are winning supporters for him. Continue FeBuhari is almost here.

major466:
APC celebrating PDP by products. Yet they keep saying PDP failed Nigeria.

If PDP had not failed people would not be jumping ship like this.

How can Asari vote? I thought he said he's no longer a Nigerian but now a citizen of Benin Republic.

ethicalUser:
Because they have highly intelligent secret agents who can uncover any plot to assassinate him. Unlike ours who's have been compromised and unintelligent they can sell their masters for a change. No wise president in present day Nigeria will make such move. If he goes there and get killed you will still come here and say its his cluelessness that got him killed .Ask obasanjo if he visited the creeks when naija delta militants where on rampage. Pls cut GEJ some slack.

Obasanjo didn't visit the creeks but he visited Delta and Rivers states during the height of the niger delta crisis. He went there to at least show his face. Since this boko haram problem blew up Jonathan has not even shown his face in any of the affected states or even neighbouring states sef. It almost looks like he doesn't care about those people.

joshuaidibia:
Oga,u dey tok o. Visit dem at the War Front? nawa o. How can that be possible? Am not supporting him o,i no jst nderstnd wetn u mean.

There is a long history of strong leaders visiting their troops when a country is at war in order to lift their spirits and boost their morale. For example, Bush went to visit his troops in Iraq and Obama has gone to visit his troops in Afghanistan more than once. By war front I don't mean the actual theater of fighting. A visit can be staged in a neutral territory close enough to where the troops are based but far enough for the safety of the president to be guaranteed. They will appreciate it and it will also make him look strong.

sweettease:
Don't you see it, this is not the first Shekau, they keep trying to create the illusion that he is alive. Even if 10 Shekaus are killed, there will be another to take his place.

Btw how recent is this video?

My friend can't you see it's the same Shekau? Why are you allowing your eyes to deceive you? And the video is obviously very recent cos the Charlie Hebdo attacks happened just a week ago.

It's easy to commission structures. Has he ever visited the soldiers at the war front to encourage them even once? It's good to remember the dead but it's also important to remember the living, to boost their morale.

himkers:
I never knew white men teaches in nomadic/arabic schools..

It wasn't a nomadic/arabic school. It was a regular government secondary school.

Ucheosefoh:
BROS no vex which WAEC you are talking about because Buhari have not provide any certificate

Don't worry my guy, you go soon see am. Maybe when INEC issue am the certificate of return as the winner of the election.

What's the point of building schools that nobody will attend? Another colossal waste of funds and resources. This GEJ and his white elephant projects sha.

Aksonman:
What a pity

The real pity is that an old ex-military man with WASC has more common sense than a middle aged PhD holder in zoology.